 Noi Si Cerul SARM str. Primaverii nr.12, Bl. D15, ap.4, Cluj-Napoca, 3400, Romania. ISSN 1454-3052 not for sale email SARM email Noi si cerul visit Noi Si Cerul's Website visit Euro-Eclipse '99 Website Before commenting on this review please read the FAQ page Home page Notes for publishers Want to be a reviewer? Anthologies. Books. Audio. Magazines. Software. Video. Artefacts. Web design by Gerald England This page last updated: 13th February 2005. |
Noi Si Cerul Spring-Summer 1999 | |
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The Romanian Astronomical Society of Meteors, acronymed SARM was founded by Valentin Grigore from Targoviste in 1993, and biannually publishes the 40-page journal "Us and the Sky" (Noi si Cerul), which is freely distributed in and outside the country. The chief-editor is Gelu-Claudiu Radu from Cluj-Napoca, whereas Andrei Dorian Gheorghe from Bucharest with Iulian Haba from Codlea are editors. Many foreign correspondents are listed, among them Dr. Ovidiu Vaduvescu from the RASC Observatory in Toronto Center - my former student at Balcescu College in Craiova. Articles of astronomy, well-documented, in Romanian or English, interviews, biographies of astronomers, observatories, exhibitions about astronomical phenomena, international teleconferences and meetings are presented in this periodical, together with a literary part such as "astro-humour", "astro-poetry", epigrams, science fiction, "cosmo-festivals", Romanian astro-mythology. This issue, focuses on the Sun Eclipse seen from Romania at August 11, 1999. | ||
| reviewer: Florentin Smarandache. | ||
| Noi Si Cerul #16 | ||
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Although written almost entirely Romanian, the highlights of this magazine are not the articles
but the photographs.
The cover has superb colour photographs by Valentin Grigore of the 1999 total eclipse of the sun and of the Leonid Meteor Shower. Romania was one of the best places for viewing the eclipse and a series of photographs is reproduced on page 13 together with a temperature chart showing how it rose from 24ºC at 7am to about 34ºC just after 1pm then from 1.30pm to 2pm dropping to 29ºC before rising between 2.30pm and 4pm up to 35ºC. This page includes three poems in English: The eclipse: the battle between darkness and light. Will the light be victorious inside us? Will the light drive away the darkness which overruns the world? — Valentin Grigore Dragons abducting the Sun... we are waiting for the Hero, the solar Man, optimistic and indefatigable, to save us again. — Andrei Dorian Gheorghe The light will come again and the dust from its crown will be called: Reconciliation — Emanuela Ignatoiu-Sora Further photographs form a centre-spread, whilst two further pages are devoted to quite remarkable and fantastic images of the fireballs created by the November Leonid shower Two pages are filled with short poems, including work by John Francis Haines, Steve Sneyd, myself and others translated into Romanian. | ||
| reviewer: Gerald England. |